Chester News

A West Chester, Illinois woman is recovering today after a near drowning in Chikaming Township, and one local official says it's all thanks to some good Samaritans and new technology.

The family of Sheri Coleman wants to know more about a reported fundraiser held for her husband.

Police say the reported death threats against the Coleman family came from Chris Coleman's computer.

Chris Coleman, the father accused of killing his wife and two sons, has had a few visitors since being locked up at the Monroe County Jail.

Chris Coleman, center, is consoled by an unidentified female and his father, Rev.

Police arrested a southwestern Illinois man in connection with the slayings of his 31-year-old wife and their two young sons.

Wednesday's wicked weather is not making things any easier in southern Missouri and Illinois.

Sheri Coleman's mother, Angela DeCicco, was alone when the LaGrange Park Police called her May 5 and informed her of the deaths earlier that morning of her only daughter and only grandchildren, according to court records.

As investigators continue to search for a killer in Columbia Illinois, a man who's known the family of Chris Coleman for years has a message about the father and husband of the victims.

The lead investigator hunting the murderer of a woman and her two sons said Wednesday he knows who did it - but that the prosecutor may take a month or more to review the evidence.

CHESTER, Ill. - Investigators say one person is responsible for last week's killings of a woman and her two children in their southwestern Illinois home.

More than a week after the Coleman family slayings, the three victims are being laid to rest.

Chris Coleman walked out of the Columbia Police department on Monday after complying with a court order to submit his fingerprints, according to Maj.

Power outages has knocked KSGM AM and KBDZ FM off air Some described Friday morning's storm as a mini hurricane but the storms that moved through Perry and Sainte Genevieve Counties in Missouri and Randolph County in Illinois were more than mini, they were extremely powerful and destructive.

Investigators with the Major Case Squad say they may extend their customary 5 day working period as they continue looking for the killer of three people in Columbia, Illinois Tuesday.

The SIU Board of Trustees will consider a proposal next week that could increase tuition rates by 9.9 percent, university spokesman Rod Sievers confirmed Tuesday.

By this time next month, the Wal-Mart store in O'Fallon will move some of its departments to different places.

Fans attending the Chester High School boys' basketball game Friday, Feb. 13, may experience momentary confusion when they look around the gymnasium.

Local Boy Scouts for decades have worn shoulder patches from the Okaw Valley or Trails West council, but that's about to end.

The state of Illinois will pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging correctional officers did nothing to stop the murder of an inmate at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Ill.